Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1887-04-17
BbseIias Register
THE LABOR WORLD.
OUR USUAL WEEKLY RESUME OF INDUS
TRIAL NOTES.
Business ~Haltng-Mils and Factories Crowded.
Labor Well Employed ald Prospects
GOOd-Gsneral Notes.
Special Correspondence Of the S,Hday Rsqser.

trial activity has been unsettled by the
new railroad law, and manufacturers, ship
pers and consumers are much unsettled
over the effect the new freight rates will
have over each of their interests. The gene,
raj trade conditions are excellent. Manu-.
facturers throughout the country are busy
from Maine to Texas. During the past few
weeks comparatively few new orders were
placed.
Shippers have made no effort TO hold
forward supplies, on account Tot the un,
settled rates, The reports from various
industrial centerS are as follows: Boston,
lumber Is active, while quiet. Boots and
shoes are selling we'll. The cotton products
are advancing in price. At Chicago rail
way material is il very active demand.
Coal is quiet lumber active, and a general
feeling OF confidence prevails.
At Philadelphia there has been q general
falling OF in business at mills and fac
tories. though they are crowded with work
n everything promises we'll.
Pittsburg iron mills, glass works and
manufacturing establishments are all over
sold. New enterprises are spriDging up.
AtLouisyille industrial activity is genaral,
and business is brisk. In st. Louis a
quiet week's-business has been done, and
at Kansas City lumber and builders hard
ware are mOTp active than ever. In Mil
waukee, business has been checked byran-
vance in freight. In Omaha, reports are
all good. In New Orleans, there has been
a decided falling of in business.
A great deal Of combining, negotiating,
and pooling is quietly going on among rail
roads, in spite OF the Interstate Law. This
new law will compel railroads to consult
each Others mutual interest. The volume
OF railroad traffic will very soon increase.
For the first quarter of the year 1874, 900
men went on q strike against los, 900 in
lSS6. Wages have been advanced 10 to 10
per cents throughout the United States,
within the past two years.
At Cincinnati, l,5OO carpenters and hOd
carriers struck for an advance A strike Is
threatened amOngtwO thousand glass work
ers at PIttSbuTg. At Boston the building
trades will work nine hours only.
The tight still goes on between the Mas
sachuSetts boot and shoe makers and their
wOrkmen. There Is only one thing that
machinery has not been able to do for a
shoe, and that is TO last fine shoes without
taCks. At last a machine has been per
fected, which it Is said viii 10 this work.
The past quarters shoe business shows a
marked improvement over the inst OF last
year.
4 strike occurred in q German manufac-
turing district, for 4 reduction OF hours OF
labor, which are now from . 81 A. NJ. to
30 4. VI. Industrial agItatiOns on a large
scllc are threatened there, because OF the
increasing opportunities OF labor. Surplus
labor Is not abundant.
Illinois has 63i labor organizations with
4 membership Of llL,3G5, of whom two
thirds are foreigners and one hall are
Knights. OF the Knights 2D per cent are
skilled wOrkmen. Last year the wOrkmen
OF Illinois, lost IN strikes, l,32S,213 days,
worth in wages S2,6lL,6G9. There were
two hundred and twelve strikes, involving
jU52 workers.
New York is credited with 3OS, 900 wage
workers, Philadelphia, 2TO,OOO, Chicago,
lOi,uDD. Boston, 10000; Cincinnati, 3D.
100; PIttSburg, =, 100; aud st. Louis, 3D.
JOD. Minneapolis which IS bOaSting more
londly than any city on The continent
about itself and its coming greatness has
only a r]OTpOral'S guard Of T,~O0 outside OI
saw mills and car shops.
Two.thjrdS OF all tue hands engaged I'M
the hosiery aud knit gnods manulacturs
have received an advance ct = per cent,
since I-S5. Cigar makers : to 10 per cent
more. Workers in meat packing establish
ments II per cent more.
The employing carpenters and trainers OF
New York have conceded s. 6O per day.
So tar IL, SO wage workers have struck
this month, OF whom uur-halt are in Chi
clg0.
Northern capital Is finding employment
in Texas. A 500, 900 compress is to be
erected at DemOpOlis; another Is to he built
at Sheffield, Ala.
Since ISL there has been an increase OF
IN. 400 hands in New England cotton mills.
The Wisconsin assembly has passed a
bill lining or impriSOning employers who
blacklist labOrers.
la thirty-three cities there has been an
increase during the past two years Of co.
UDO in the building trades.
A syndicate OF New Workers, represent
ing -, OOO. 900, has located at FL PaSO, and
will put up ~machiLery enough to employ
900 men in reducing ores.
Banks are multiplying in the South. At
Knoxville the number will be increased
from three 20 seven. Nashville will have
a bank with 4 capital Of s., 500, 900.
There Is q probability OF u partial sus-
. a 800 Na- EnnlnnA rrnnlan
mills. The hosiery interests of New York
are still full of orders aud have good pros
poets.
The Connecticut Legislature has passed
an act calling for weekly payments by cor
poratiOus 10 the extent OF 50 per cent OF
earnings and one full settlement once a
month.
The nine. hour worSmen in many cities
are willing to strike for eight hours, but
the officials OF the unions doubt the ur-
gency and ~eNpediency of such . movement
at this time.
Eastern shoe manufacturers are receiving
invitations from manufacturers big and
little in some of the Middle and Western
States to come there and settle under free
land and no taxation.
Wages Of workers in leather have been
downward since 1885 from I'D TO 10 per
cent. Wages in the silk mills OF Patter-
son range from 50 to SIS. Blast furnaces
employees are paid from 10 to II per cent
more.
Russia has Ass cotton mills with -, los
looms. where 81, sou wOrSmen find en-
ployment. producing goods worth SS2, 500,
coo per annum. Linen Is made in eighty
seven factories, which furnish employment
to -, 500 wOrkmen.
Andrew Carnegie's furnaces at Pittsburg
make rs much iron per year as was made
in the entire country in 1861. PittSburg
has the largest teel-meltiug establishments
in the world. The city melts 300 tons per
day.
The machinests on the Pacific coast are
extremely busy with orders of all kinds Of